CPSC 424 - Geometric Modeling
September 2026Instructor: Alla Sheffer
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CPSC 424 - Geometric ModelingSeptember 2026Instructor: Alla Sheffer |
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Introduction to curves and surfaces, including splines, subdivision surfaces, polygonal meshes, implicit functions, and neural representations. Principles and mathematical foundations for representing complex geometry for computer graphics, computer vision, engineering, and machine learning. Algorithms for creation and processing of 3D shapes.
| Instructor | Alla Sheffer use email: sheffa@cs.ubc.ca for personal questions and discussion group for everything else (see note below) |
| Office hour |
Tuesday, 4-5 PM (or by appointment) X651 (ICICS/CS) |
| TA | TBD (Please use Piazza to contact the TAs) |
| Lectures | Tue, Thu 11AM-12:30PM, CHEM 124 |
| Tutorial | Thu 4PM-5PM, ORCH 3074 and ORCH 3018 |
| First class | September 10, 2026 |
| Discussion Board | We will use a Piazza discussion group for non-personal communications. Note: If students have privacy concerns about the use of Piazza, let me (instructor) know and we will consider an alternative. Piazza is hosted outside Canada, thus if you use the current setup we will proceed on the assumption that you do not object to Piazza potentially identifying you personally, and that you are consenting to the storage of personal information on Piazza servers outside Canada |
| Weekly Quizzes | The course will have weekly quizzes which will be posted on our Canvas page. The questions for the quizes will be selected among the review questions submitted by the students the week before. The deadline for submitting questions (via Piazza cpsc424.) is Monday noon. The deadline for answering the quizes is Friday noon. |
| Midterms | (Tentative) October 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 |
| Prerequisites | MATH 152, MATH 221, MATH 223 and one of MATH 200, MATH 217, MATH 226, MATH 253. |